“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”

“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.”

“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

“Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.”

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.”

“One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.”

“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.”

“I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.”

“Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.”